FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Brian Nugent Leader of Sovereignty / Alliance to Liberate Scotland Shetland Candidate
Email: info@sovereignty.scot
Website: https://sovereignty.scot
Date: March 8, 2026
Celebrate International Women’s Day by Dropping Gender Recognition Reform
Shetland, Scotland – “Sunday was International Women’s Day. One way to celebrate this properly would be for the parties that voted the Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) bill into place—the SNP, the Lib Dems, Labour and the Greens—to remove it from the parliamentary record and life in Scotland,” said Brian Nugent, Alliance to Liberate Scotland Shetland candidate.
He continued, “Having read the SNP candidate’s piece for International Women’s Day about women in politics, there was nothing to disagree with in a well-argued piece, but I did wonder if she was aware how involved the SNP is in bringing women’s rights down, and putting them in danger?”
“After two consultations, with the majority of the public against each time, the SNP—with a few notable exceptions—the Lib Dems, Labour and the Greens pushed a flawed bill through the Scottish Parliament.”
“Having been abandoned by the SNP, the Lib Dems, Labour and the Greens, women found a champion in the For Women Scotland (FWS) organisation.”[1]
“A flawed bill as many suggested because women’s rights were trampled on. The UK government were obliged to put a stop on the bill because it cut across the Equality Act 2010. GRR, in theory, was therefore stalled, although the Scottish government has continued to promote it throughout Scottish governmental and civil life.”
“Women and girls’ safe, private spaces are under threat from GRR. Women, surely, have the right to refuse consent to males in single-sex spaces or against males delivering intimate services to females.”
“FWS took the Scottish government to court to get a ruling on what sex meant in law. The Supreme Court decided that sex was biological, meaning that a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) does not change a person’s sex under the Equality Act 2010. Female women had rights over men with a GRC saying they were a woman.”
“The Scottish government had to pay FWS’s legal fees. FWS said this money would be used to fund any future legal action it deems necessary to ensure the Scottish Government complies with the law.”
“FWS took the Scottish government to court and the Supreme Court came out in their favour. But the Scottish government was being so ponderous in applying the ruling that nothing was being changed, so FWS felt they had to go to court again to get the Supreme Court ruling implemented, rather than the SNP government ignoring the ruling.”
“FWS are in court yet again in another case against the Scottish government on prison guidance, to ensure that only women go to women’s prisons.”
“It is remarkable that FWS has to go to court, so often, to ask the SNP government to comply with the law!”
Resolution passed at Sovereignty Annual Congress – Pollokshields Burgh Hall, Glasgow, 1 November 2025
Sovereignty:
- Will ensure that those suffering from Gender Dysphoria are dealt with in a professional and compassionate manner with the interests of the individual at the heart of any treatment decisions
- Will lead a campaign to remove the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill (GRR) 2022 from the record
- Will back For Women Scotland in their endeavours to apply the law
- Will ensure that the Supreme Court ruling on women’s separate spaces is followed by all Scottish based organisations
- Will ensure that all gender ideology teaching, instruction or guidelines is removed from all Scottish based organisations
- Will ensure that women’s and girls’ safe places are for women and girls only
- Will ensure that women’s prisons are for women
- Will ensure that government funding is withdrawn from third sector lobby groups advocating gender ideology
- Will ensure that all government or council bodies understand that the parents are the decision makers in their family
- Will ensure that parents must be kept informed, at every stage, of their child’s development by school, medical and social work authorities
- Will ensure that there is no place for indoctrination of primary or secondary schoolchildren into gender ideology
About Sovereignty
Sovereignty is a Scottish political party founded in 2020, standing for full Scottish independence from both the United Kingdom and the European Union, the defence of individual liberty, the value and autonomy of the family, the sanctity of human life, and the health and wellbeing of the people of Scotland. The party is led by Brian Nugent, a long-term resident of Shetland, and advocates for policies that protect women’s rights, family decision-making, and compliance with biological sex-based protections in law.
[1] https://forwomen.scot/10/02/2026/uk-supreme-court-recovery-of-costs/